Romania, 1984. A mathematician’s decision to publish a paper in a magazine edited by an American university without asking for permission from the authorities triggers a chain of events that will change the lives of his friends. After all, there is no such thing as decisions without consequences. Director’s statements At first it was a story about a man who swam against the current. In the end, we had a film about love, betrayal, personal choices. The kind of story that passes smoothly from one character to another, through the lives of three people that are at a crossroads. In any type of society there’s a constraint. Constraint generates compromise that we either accept or not. Betrayal, as a particular form of compromise, is not tolerated by a certain society. Anytime, anywhere, a person wants a better life for himself and his family. But at what cost? Careers, feelings, freedom, everything is at stake... The setting of the story during the Communist era is not a critical element, but it does provide a particularly sensitive context for revealing universal truths.